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- Type
- Inventoried Object
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Objects
- Subject number
- L 469
- Typological identification
- Late Roman Athenian lamp, late glazed
- Comparanda
- sim. KerameikosXVI, p. 252, no. 3857, pl. 64 (B. Böttger)
- Fabric, firing, and surface description
- Late Roman Attic lamp fabric (orangish red), firing, and surface (slightly smoothed). Clean seam but severe right misalignment at back handle.
- Preservation comment
- One large sherd preserves ca. 75% of lamp but missing front with nozzle and top of nozzle. Moderate, extensive abrasion and chipping around edges; mostly worn breaks; large patches of encrustation on underside.
- Published as
- KenchreaiV, p. 59, no. 279 (H. Williams)
- Discus diameter
- 0.045
- Handle total height preserved
- 0.048
- Base Length
- 0.036
- Preserved length
- 0.085
- Weight (kg)
- 0.067
- Width
- 0.063
- Base Width
- 0.032
- Other Dimensions
- H. base-shoulder 0.036
- Material
- Ceramic (Material)
- Drawing
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“KE 1768 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp).” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2024. <http://kenchreai.org/ke/ke1768>
